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Coming to The Arapiles!

aliciawcnr

13-Feb-2011
12:09:49 PM

Hello All! Myself and my pal Jorge are making the trip from NZ to OZ for some climbing. We are arriving on March the 5th in Melbourne. We are trying to suss out a way to get to the Arapiles without renting or buying a car.. Our option at this point would be a Greyhound, but we figure there have to be loads of locals from Melbourne making the trip out! We would be keen to share petrol costs for a ride share to the rocks. Drop me a line if you would like to share a lift with two friendly climbers!

aliciawcnr@gmail.com

~Alicia

pmonks

13-Feb-2011
1:42:48 PM

You just alienated every Mexican with internet access by calling it The Arapiles...

IdratherbeclimbingM9

13-Feb-2011
2:08:35 PM

On 13/02/2011 pmonks wrote:
>You just alienated every Mexican with internet access by calling it The Arapiles...

Yes, however you would have passed pm's 'filter test', if you had called it The AWESOME Arapiles!
;-)

Miguel75

13-Feb-2011
2:38:52 PM

To this day my friend still calls it Mt. Ara-Piles. It makes me laugh.

aliciawcnr

13-Feb-2011
4:18:44 PM

Damn! Maybe I should erase the post and correct it? Laugh all you want, but I would LOVE to hear you Aussies say El Potrero Chico - Hidalgo correctly!

~Alicia

wallwombat

13-Feb-2011
5:56:23 PM

On 13/02/2011 aliciawcnr wrote:
>Damn! Maybe I should erase the post and correct it? Laugh all you want,
>but I would LOVE to hear you Aussies say El Potrero Chico - Hidalgo correctly!
>
>~Alicia

You're kidding, aren't you?

Next your going to tell us the "H" in "Hueco" is pronounced like a "W".

Miguel75

13-Feb-2011
7:06:16 PM

On 13/02/2011 aliciawcnr wrote:
>Damn! Maybe I should erase the post and correct it? Laugh all you want,
>but I would LOVE to hear you Aussies say El Potrero Chico - Hidalgo correctly!
>
>~Alicia

Just ignore the heathen hoards Alicia. Do what my Chicano hermano's do, when they turn the other cheek, shank em in the back...

aliciawcnr

13-Feb-2011
7:35:07 PM

Good Grief! I was just looking to hitch a ride! By the way, i'm not even latina!

Alicia

hipdos

13-Feb-2011
7:40:35 PM

On 13/02/2011 aliciawcnr wrote:
>Good Grief! I was just looking to hitch a ride! By the way, i'm not even
>latina!
>
>Alicia

This is your best place to ask, and it will probably happen eventually. But you will get chockstoned in the mean time. It's nothing personal, happens to everyone.

hero

13-Feb-2011
8:33:59 PM

Is that like hanker?

>
>You're kidding, aren't you?
>
>Next your going to tell us the "H" in "Hueco" is pronounced like a "W".
>
>
>
>

Miguel75

13-Feb-2011
8:50:01 PM

On 13/02/2011 aliciawcnr wrote:
>Good Grief! I was just looking to hitch a ride!

I'm having an identity crisis today. I'm a Chicano trapped in a dorky, muddle class white boy body.

>By the way, i'm not even latina!

You'll be right Alicia, no one's perfect.
>
>Alicia

kieranl

13-Feb-2011
8:56:02 PM

5th March is a Saturday. Most people from Melbourne will be travelling from Melbourne on Friday for the weekend.
Were you planning on getting to Arapiles on the Saturday, Sunday or Monday? If your're lucky someone will be coming up on the Sunday with space.
V-Line train and bus to Horsham (30 km from Arapiles) operates daily - think it's about $25 per person one way. During the week there is a connecting bus from Horsham to Arapiles in early afternoon but on weekends you'll have to hitch (or take a taxi but that's an expensive option and sounds like not on your radar).

Eduardo Slabofvic

14-Feb-2011
9:50:34 AM

You'ld be better off on a Rhodesian Ridgeback

MrsM10iswhereitsat.

14-Feb-2011
1:00:49 PM

On 14/02/2011 Eduardo Slabofvic. wrote:
>You'ld be better off on a Rhodesian Ridgeback

Ooh goody. Mr Eduardo has started a guessing game.
I guess better off on a Rhodesian Ridgeback, than scoring a ride to Arapiles on a Saturday from Melbourne.
Derek my M10 love guesses better off on a Rhodesian Ridgeback, than getting involved there with simey.

Eduardo Slabofvic

14-Feb-2011
1:22:36 PM

On 14/02/2011 MrsM10iswhereitsat wrote:
>On 14/02/2011 Eduardo Slabofvic. wrote:
>>You'ld be better off on a Rhodesian Ridgeback
>
>Ooh goody. Mr Eduardo has started a guessing game.
>I guess better off on a Rhodesian Ridgeback, than scoring a ride to Arapiles
>on a Saturday from Melbourne.
>Derek my M10 love guesses better off on a Rhodesian Ridgeback, than getting
>involved there with simey.
>

...... than a Greyhound (read his post). Greyhounds may be faster than the Rhodesian Ridgeback over 500m, but over a long haul with gear, they would taper off early.

MrsM10iswhereitsat.

14-Feb-2011
1:48:50 PM

On 14/02/2011 Eduardo Slabofvic. wrote:
>...... than a Greyhound (read his post). Greyhounds may be faster than
>the Rhodesian Ridgeback over 500m, but over a long haul with gear, they
>would taper off early.

Ok, I now guess, that the trend of starting up horses with electricity at the pommie races, will never catch on here, in the climber races from Melbs to Araps, as the society for cruelty prevention to doGs wouldn't be happy about it.

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